Picket fence



(No Model.)

' H. W. VOLOK.

PIOKBT FENCE.

Patented July 8, 1890.

E 4 fl F e if m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY WV. VOLOK, OF GOTHENBURG, NEBRASKA,

PICKET FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,759, dated July 8,1890.

Application filed March 10, 1890. Serial No. 343.3%- (No model To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY WV. VOLOK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Gothenburg, in the county of Dawson and State of Nebraska,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picket Fences; andI do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a partof this specification.

The special object of the invention is to make a fence of wire rails andwooden pickets, the former first strained until taut between the posts,and the latter then secured to them by malleable nails bent and pointedto form barbs, as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation showing a panel whichillustrates my invention; Fig. 2, a detail view of the malleable nails;Fig. 3, a view of one of the pickets with the nails driven through itpreparatory to connecting it with the wire rails, and Fig. 4 a detailView of the clincher.

In the drawings, A represents the wooden pickets, preferably, but notnecessarily, made of ash or elm hoop-poles cut into three or four feetlengths and split to a suitable size. Any other wooden pickets, palings,or slats may be employed.

B B are two posts, secured firmly to the ground in any approved mannerand at any desired distance apart. To one of these B the wire rails aresecured by driving a staple O at one end into the Wood which straddlesthe rail. The rails are then stretched until perfectly taut and theirother ends secured in the same way to the posts B. These rails D may bemade ofone, two, or more wires, and where plural wires are used shouldbe more or less twisted together.

The nails E are made of malleable metal, which will bend easily and maybe of any size or form, as the occasion may require, and the points areto ultimately form barbs, if so desired. WVhen about to be fastened tothe wire rails, the nails E are made to rest upon them, and the clincherF, which is made with an end slot f, and a little back of this with ahole f, is used to do the bending, this to be made of any kind of metalwith a steel end to it where the slot and the hole are in. The slot inthe clincher is intended to nip off the imperfections at the points ofwire nails, if any. The nail first enters the hole f with itsp0int,which is then bent over, under, and around the wire rail, so as toleave the point e at right angles thereto, or nearly so.

It will be readily observed that the picket may extend so near to theground and to each other that this fence may be made to turn any kind ofstock and to form a perfect poultry-fence. Similar fences, where thepickets are twisted or Woven into the wire, wave back and forth, so thatthe top wires cut into the pickets, palings, or slats, While the wiresthemselves are so stretched and slackened as to lap over in all shapes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire toprotect by Letters Patent, is

In a fence, the combination, with wire strands and wooden pickets, ofmalleable headed nails, the said nails being driven up to the headsthrough the pickets, and then coiled around the strands, so as to bringthe points at right angles thereto and present barbs, as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY W. VOLOK.

ALLEN OOUSE.

